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Avem Occidere Mimicam: To Kill A Mockingbird Translated into Latin by Harper Lee The first translation of To Kill a Mockingbird in Latin. It is suitable for students at any level of proficiency. Souvenir Press Ltd, £15.00, 5th April 2018, 9780285643864

BBC’s ‘Today’ programme partners with Octopus Cassell Illustrated has signed a publishing partnership with BBC Radio 4’s “Today” programme, to publish the programme’s first official book along with two others. The partnership between the Octopus Publishing Group division and the early morning news programme will include three books. The Today Programme Puzzle Book which will publish on 6th…

The American edition of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened looks stylish and elegant; the UK one is dreadful. But the reasons that books differ so much across different markets isn’t solely down to simple sales The US (left) and UK (right) editions of What happened by Hillary Clinton. Photograph: PR Covers sell books. But in…

Harper Lee stuns the world, Marlon James puts Jamaica on the Booker map and Michel Houellebecq imagines a Muslim France – our critics wrap up the year Harper Lee made headlines with an unexpected second novel, while Michel Houellebecq found himself caught up in the news cycle as his novel imagining France under Muslim rule…

Brilliant Books in Michigan says customers are owed apologies for portrayal of Harper Lee’s long-lost manuscript as a ‘nice summer novel’ rather than an academic curiosity A US independent bookshop is offering refunds to its Go Set a Watchman customers, claiming that the work should be viewed as an “academic insight” into Harper Lee’s development as…

To Kill a Mockingbird still shines a sharp light on southern society, but its power comes as much from its narrative mastery as its understanding of racism Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Scout) in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. Photograph: Tristram Kenton It’s easy to get distracted from To Kill a…

Harper Lee | Go Set a Watchman | William Heinemann 9781785150289 | R330 Illustration: Tom Clohosy Cole for the Guardian Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical. Over her breakfast coffee, she watched the last of Georgia’s hills recede and the red earth appear, and with it…